Marvin



(No Model.)

M. G. STONE.

MOUTH PIECE FOR CIGARETTES.

Patented Jul 20, 1886.

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llIAI'tVIN G. STONE, OF WASHINGTON,'DISTRIGT F COLUMBIA.

WiGUTt-i PiECE FUR ClGhREITS.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 345,869, dated July 20, 1886.

Application filed March 23, 1886.

To all whom it may concern: I

lBeiitknown that I, MARVIN C. STONE, a citizen of the United States, residing atWash- I ington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mouth-Pieces for Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side view of a finished cigarette-holder. 'Fig. 2 illustrates one of the blanks which I use. Fig. 3 shows a holder applied to a cigarette. Fig. 4 illustrates the manner of nesting several of the holders together. Fig. 5 is a view of aholder, onalar erscale, adapted for use with cigars. Fig. g is a longitudinal section of that in Fig. 5.

Each mouthpiece A. is made by wrapping paper so that there is produced a sufiieient number of folds. I employ a blank, A.,having the features shown in Fig. 2.

a a. are the side edges; of, the upper edge, and a the lower edge. The upper and lower edges, a and a, are on curved lines, so as to have the end of the tube square-that is to say, have all of the parts of each edge lie in substantially the same plane transversely of the axis of the tube without the necessity of cutting the ends.

The edge a consists, mainly, of two parts, one indicated by c and the other by c. The part 0 turns in at the top edge, 07, toward the center of the blank, and this is a featureof utility, for, as will beseen in Fig. 6, the first edge wrapped, a, takes a substantially-vertical position-that is to say, the part c of the edge a is not spiral (relatively to the longitudinal axis of the month-piece) after wrapping, but lies in a-substantially-straight line, or a line much less spiral than that of the outer edge, a, (see Fig. 1;) hence in nesting one month-piece within another, or inserting a cigarette or cigar, the inward passing end meets no obstruction from this inner edge, a, but can slide easily to its place. If the edge a ran more directly from the corner a to the corner a, it (said edge) would,after wrapping, occupy a more spiral positionthat is, one more nearly similar to the outer edge, aand this I find it desirable to obviate. The other part,c,turns out away from the center of the blank. I form these parts a c of the edge by Serial No. 196,293. (No model.)

making a recess or indentation, as at a fl between the corners a and a. The part 0 is so out that it, in combination with the bottom edge, provides an extension or tongue, a.,at or near the lower corner of the blank. After the holder A has been formed this tongue lies at the smaller end of the holder, as shown in Fig.

6,it serving not only to thicken and strengthen o the tube at that joint, but also serving as a stop or gage in nesting the holders. It also performs important functions during the process of manufacture, which process,however,1snot the subject-matter of this case. In meeting the various ehds at which I aim, this tongue or extension and the shape of the edge a. can,

without departing from my invention, be more or less modified.

The edge a is straight from the corner b at the upper edge to the corner I). at the lower edge, and by examining Figs. 1 and 5 it will be seen that this edge aisso wrapped spirally as to graduallyinerease the thickness from the upper end toward the lower end of the holder; but the essential features of the holder can be preserved even if this edge a be of a modified character.

The winding of the paper'can be efl'ected in any way desirable-by machine or by hand. I prefer to grasp it in a former, adapted to receive the tongue or extension a",and revolve the former in such way. as to wrap the paper around it. Paste is applied to more or less of the papcr,either before or after the wrapping, and the folds or layers are thereby fastened together. After the tube has been formed,I sub ject a part of it to treatment with a material v such as paraffine, the upper or larger end being left free from this material, the treated portion lying between the line row in the drawings and the smaller end.

I have found that these holders or mouthp'ieces, especially those for cigarettes, cannot be treated throughout the whole length to advantage, inasmuch as the heat in the cigarette soon begins to affect the paraffine or other material used, causing unpleasant odorsandtastes.

I avoid this by leaving the paper at the largerend in a free state, whereby the cigarette can be completely consumed before the parafiine is reached.

I herein allude to paratfine, butit will be understood that I mean to include equivalent materials or compositions of material which are adapted to attain any of the ends accomplished by using paraffine. I also herein refer more particularly to cigarettes; but holders for cigars, cheroots, we, can'be made with many of the features herein described with sufficient variations as to dimensions, thickness, of extent of paraifining, 850.

I do not in this case claim the subject-matter constituting the claims in my application No. 200,487, filed April 28, 1886, or in my application No. 186,218, filed December 19, 1885, or in my application No. 192,162, filed February 16, 1886.

What I claim is b 1. A detachable conical holder for cigars or cigarettes, which is open at both ends, having walls of superimposed layers of paper,and hav-v ing the tongue a in theinterior chamber at or near the smaller end and integral with. the blank of which the walls are composed, substantially as set forth.

. ers of paper wrapped in coils, with the outer edge, a, lying on a spiral, which increases the thickness toward the smaller end, substantial] y asset forth, and coated at the'smaller end only, both inside and outside, with vparaffine, the larger end being'free therefrom, as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARVIN O. STONE.

Witnesses:

BURTIS W. SoMMERs,

H. Buss. 

